⚡ Legacy Technologies in the United Arab Emirates

Legacy technologies are platforms and tools that have been discontinued or shut down and no longer operate. Some are completely defunct, while others remain functional but unsupported.

The United Arab Emirates is a Western Asian country with a population of over 10 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 25.9% of websites from the United Arab Emirates.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top legacy technologies in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 38.7%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 25.9% and jQuery Cookie with 11.8%.

Magnific Popup 38.7%
Google URL Shortener 25.9%
jQuery Cookie 11.8%
jQuery Mousewheel 8%
Polymer 4.4%
Skrollr 3.6%
AddThis 2.8%
iLightBox 2.6%
AngularJS 2.1%
Adobe Flash 1.9%
Picturefill 1.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.8%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.7%
Skype 1.3%
Google Sign-In 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in the United Arab Emirates than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. Polymer ^(-3)
6. Skrollr ^(-5)
8. iLightBox ^(-1)
9. AngularJS ^(-8)
11. Picturefill ^(-1)
12. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-2)
14. Skype ^(-1)
15. Google Sign-In ^(-20)
16. Google Optimize ^(-5)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 56 legacy technologies used on sites from the United Arab Emirates, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	38.7%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	25.9%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.8%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8%
5	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.4%
6	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.6%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.8%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.6%
9	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
10	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.9%
11	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
12	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.8%
13	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
14	Skype Redmond, Washington, United States A communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of Microsoft Teams. FreeLegacy	1.3%
15	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity Services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.9%
16	Google Optimize Mountain View, California, United States A free website optimization tool integrated with Google Ads that enabled A/B, multivariate, and redirect landing page testing. Legacy	0.9%
17	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.9%
18	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
19	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.7%
20	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.7%
21	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A live chat solution from Salesforce that is currently in maintenance-only mode and is scheduled to be retired in February 2026. Legacy	0.7%
22	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.6%
23	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.6%
24	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	0.6%
25	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Qatar

Data is based on the analysis of 8,313 websites from the United Arab Emirates.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.